RockMelt

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Rockmelt, the startup that aims to reinvent the Web browser with a social focus, launched an Android application on Wednesday morning. Unlike the company's existing iPad and iPhone apps, Rockmelt's new Android app has been reconfigured to fit the many screen sizes that Android devices come in. Rockmelt also made updates to the navigation user interface, vertical and horizontal viewing...

Rockmelt announced Thursday it would soon end support for its desktop browser service, instead transitioning its user base to its mobile apps and newly launched Web-based product. The company, helmed by ex-Netscape engineers and backed by Marc Andreessen, aimed to reinvent the browser with social capabilities. But as Rockmelt subtly admitted in its post, Google's Chrome momentum was just too...

Add another Yahoo acquisition to the pile. The Internet company has purchased "image intelligence" outfit IQ Engines for an undisclosed price. IQ Engines, which develops image recognition software capable of categorizing pictures based on the people and objects featured in them, is to be rolled into Yahoo's Flickr team, presumably to help improve the widely used photo services search feature....

Good morning. The U.S. cloud computing industry could lose between $21.5 billion and $35 billion in revenues over the next three years as a result of concerns about the National Security Agency's electronic surveillance programs, the FT's Paul Taylor reports. The figures, calculated by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, are the first serious attempt to gauge the impact of...

Good morning. The Obama administration's surprise intervention into the Samsung-Apple trade dispute will help stabilize a market of interest to CIOs, making sure that they have access to older, lower-priced Apple devices. That's key because older devices—while old!—still work. They are cheap, they are well understood, and they get the job done.

Yahoo will report third-quarter earnings after the close of trading Tuesday, giving Wall Street another look at how well Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is faring at turning around the long-struggling company.